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You said it. I know here in southwestern PA where we just moved to because of the non-compete I have from the sale, it's tough to find any good people because everyone around here can make $2500 a week on the pipeline or on a gas well pad, without the stress of climbing trees every day...

I agree with you entirely. He's also in Chicago, not everyone has that kind of work volume in their immediate area. I could never have done 40 crews in Fort Wayne, there was only $10,000,000 a year in tree work in the whole corner of the state, and too much competition to get all the work...

I 100% agree with you. We always try to talk to the customer, and if you're there an hour, you probably got the job. We also try to be in the middle which if you've got any experience doing trees at all, should be about where you end up. 4 days would be a nice week. If you have a 50%...

Well, I looked at jobber before we really got into building this thing. From what I remember they didn't do quote routing their invoices couldn't match our quote forms. We took deposits on larger jobs and I don't think they did that. Their scheduling sucked back then, I heard they integrated...

Makes sense. I really like that you guys meet the customer. I found that gives the highest closing rate, and makes your customers love you. Doing quotes most evenings we would just call them when we were headed to their house. If they weren't there AND we really wanted the job, we might stop...

Makes sense, that's a lot of how we did things in the beginning. 50 quotes a week was pretty standard, more in the spring and fall. Storms we might get 150 calls in a weekend. Getting to all the ones we could, or just prioritizing them was kind of a nightmare, so we needed the routing to keep...

Does anyone keep track of their "pipeline" numbers? Like how many quote requests / quotes done / jobs received / gross receipts. We keep track of those numbers so we can catch it fast if our numbers drop that way we never run out of work. Like when winter starts and other guys start...

So you at least have to enter the customer info 3 times. Once on the quote, once in your gps, and once in quickbooks. How do you get the home advisor leads? Do you have a quote request form on your website? Is there a limit on the number of addresses you can add to your Garmin active route...

so he did't give the customer a quote form? did he just write down his contact info for the folks that wanted to think about it?

Sounds like a lot of work. I like the single entry method too, saves a lot of problems. Who knows how to spell the customer's last name better than the customer? And phone numbers get put in wrong often. When we started using our system, we started getting the customer's email on the website...

what did he give the customer, do you know?

So you write it out on the quote form, then scan it and email it?

We started out on paper, and still keep some in the truck for "emergencies". How do you route your quotes since you use paper? Do you find yourself backtracking a lot? I don't know how it compares with Arborquote, and I don't have an I phone, all my stuff is android, but their site didn't say...

For about 8 years now I've been working on software to help me manage my tree business. Last October I sold 2 Guys Tree Service in Fort Wayne, IN but I couldn't stop working on the software. I had a bunch of things I'd always wanted to do, but never had the time, and that's what I've been...

Just thought I'd mention for anyone who doesn't know's benefit. Those sites are good looking, but need a good bit more work done to them on the technical side. Most website visitors now days are going to our sites on mobile devices, so the search engines rank sites that are good on mobile...

When I started trees we knocked on doors at first, until we realized they either wanted us to do it for free or ridiculously cheap. They didn't see the problem, that's why they hadn't called somebody, and you don't get paid much to solve something that ain't a problem. When it becomes a...

I had a couple guys try to pick it up. That particular log was almost 4' and 20"-24" something like that. They were big guys and the pile was maybe 100' away. I always like to keep a big guy on the crew, not just tall but stocky. The big guy we have now we call him "Sas" short for...

Ah maybe 100 - 200 pounds. Something they couldn't pick up was all I was looking for. Usually they'd flip it end over end to the pile, then when it was "against" the pile they'd look at me, like "that's all you wanted, right?" Usually I'd just stare at them, till they figured out I meant ON...

A few years back we started doing things this way: We put an ad on CL or somewhere. Everyone that calls gets an interview. I schedule them all at the same time. 30-40 calls means 1 or 2 will show up. When they get there I point to a big log that's about 30' from a pile of logs. I say, "Put...

I have 3 daughters, my youngest climbs for fun. She's got more guts in a tree than half the guys I've trained to climb. And on after hours jobs, or when we're short a guy, she works right along side the guys on the crew and never complains about the rain. She's been doing that since she was...